music compositions
for solo instrument
what confronts us - for solo B-flat clarinet (2024) - written for/collaboration with Grace Talaski
and I know the amplitude of time - for solo harp and electronics (2022) - written for/collaboration with Parker Ramsay
Without Asking - for solo contrabass (2018) - written for/collaboration with Dave Riedstra
States of Red - for solo viola (2015) - written for/collaboration with Sarah Tradewell
Aqua Grigio - for solo trumpet (2014) - written for/collaboration with Matt Richard
The Lonely Cat - for solo B-flat clarinet (2012)
for two+ instruments
There are more _____ than you know - for accordion and electric bass guitar (2024) - written for Seth Josel and Christine Pate
And Their Gestures Were Blurred - for flute and piano (2023) - written for Thomas Law and Nichola Markovic, for University of Victoria (Canada) Emerging Alumni Concert series
Tangential Undertows - for 2 Japanese shōs (2021) - written for Michael Murphy and Wesley Shen, for Freesound Music Series
Silva pyriferarum - for contrabass quartet (2021) - written for the UC San Diego contrabass quartet 2020-2021
BPA/what did you do? - for 2 soprano voices and violoncello (2019) - written for Alondra Vega-Zaldivar, Gwenna Fairchild-Taylor, and Joel Tangjerd, for Cries of the Earth: an international opera
ghost words - for flute, soprano voice, toy piano, and acoustic guitar, based on poetry by Lexxi (2017) - written for Strange Impulse concert
suicide flower/自噬之花 - for tenor voice and electronics, based on poetry by Chris Song (2017) - written for Caution Tape Sound Collective Volume 3. concert
flick/whoosh - for alto saxophone, harp, and accordion (2016) - for Toronto Creative Music Lab
Still night - for alto flute, violoncello, piano, and soprano voice, based on Still Night by Li Bai (2015) - for Victoria Composers’ Collective Valentine Concerts
Sole meunière - for flute, trombone, and tenor voice (2013) - inspired by a description of sole fish in A Life In France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
for chamber ensemble/orchestra
An imperfect herding of ions - for flute, Bb clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and violoncello (2024) - for PIVOT program with the Continuum Ensemble
Paean to Four Paws - for flute, Bb clarinet, percussion, violoncello, and contrabass (2023) - dedicated to my friends’ feline companions
Walking with O. - for 6 percussion players (2023) - written for the UC San Diego undergraduate percussion ensemble One Fish Two Fish - dedicated to a canine friend
Omega-Threes <*)))< : Celebration Prelude - for orchestra (2022) - commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director to celebrate the orchestra’s 100th season, October 2022
火藥/Fire Medicine - for amplified 4-string electric bass guitar, amplified 5-string bass guitar, percussion, and 2 high voices (2016)
installations
Letters from the Water/Cartas del Agua - sound installation for washrooms at St. Pauls’ Episcopal Cathedral - for Project Blank Working Title Exhibition, San Diego, USA, January 2024
Letters from the Water/Cartas del Agua, v.2 - audio-video installation for stereo speakers, headphones - for Center for Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) In the Field 2 Symposium, London, UK, July 2024
Heyday Flânneurs - interactive sound installation, Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Canada, 2015